How to Swaddle your Baby: Benefits and Safety Tips
How to Swaddle your Baby: Benefits and Safety Tips Swaddling is tightly wrapping your baby in a blanket to restrict the movement of their arms and legs. This is especially helpful at this stage due to the Moro or startle reflex, where their arms and legs suddenly move involuntarily. This reflex occurs both when they […]
5 Newborn Sleep Tips To Support a Better Schedule Early On
5 Newborn Sleep Tips To Support a Better Schedule Early On Putting your newborn on a sleep schedule isn’t as rigid as it sounds. I’m Kim, an expert on gentle, evidence-based infant sleep. It is possible to create small habits early on in your baby’s life to support their sleep — now and as they […]
Understanding Sleep & Surviving the First Few Months With Your Sweet Newborn
Understanding Sleep & Surviving the First Few Months With Your Sweet Newborn You won’t get a lot of sleep with a newborn. (There, I said it. Better to set realistic expectations so you’re prepared!) It might surprise you that in my new book, The Sleep Lady’s Gentle Guide to Newborn Sleep, we focus on feeding […]
Signs of The 4-Month Sleep Regression & 3 Simple Solutions To Help You Through It
Signs of The 4-Month Sleep Regression & 3 Simple Solutions To Help You Through It Whether you’re still sleep deprived or feeling like you’re finally getting a routine down — when the 4-month sleep regression hits, it rocks your world. You desperately need your baby to sleep at night, for everyone’s sake! If your baby’s […]
Understand Why Your Baby Stays Awake All Night but Sleeps in The Day
Understand Why Your Baby Stays Awake All Night but Sleeps in The Day Your 4-week-old’s beautiful eyes are wide open, and they’re staring up at you bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. It’s incredible gazing at your child, soaking up every tiny detail. Then, a wave of exhaustion hits and you remember… It’s 2 am. You suddenly feel […]
The Gentle Newborn Sleep Guide: Your Top 12 Questions Answered
The Gentle Newborn Sleep Guide: Your Top 12 Questions Answered Those first few months with your newborn are supposed to be a precious time – a time when you can begin to build a lifelong bond with your new child. That’s why I’m often disturbed by some of the misguided sleep advice floating around for […]
The Best Way To Safely Co-Sleep with Your Newborn & Insight On The Impact
The Best Way To Safely Co-Sleep with Your Newborn & Insight On The Impact The topic of co-sleeping and whether the risks outweigh the benefits of co-sleeping with your newborn or baby is hotly debated in the world of infant sleep. Co-sleeping with your newborn is different from room sharing, which is having the baby […]
How to Bond With Your Newborn To Help Them Sleep Better
How to Bond With Your Newborn To Help Them Sleep Better Believe it or not, you can actually improve your newborn’s sleep from something as simple as cuddling, talking softly, and speaking reassuring phrases such as “It’s okay” or “There, there” in your bedtime routine. It’s true! Dr. Douglas Teti, a professor of psychology at […]
What You Want To Know on Room Sharing and Safe Sleeping for Newborns
What You Want To Know on Room Sharing and Safe Sleeping for Newborns When you’re bringing home a new baby you want to do the safest thing possible for them. When it comes to newborn sleep, boy has it changed over the years! From putting babies on their stomachs to their backs, rules are always […]
The Difference Between Sleep Shaping and Coaching Your Newborn To Sleep
The Difference Between Sleep Shaping and Coaching Your Newborn To Sleep First and foremost, please don’t believe this newborn sleep advice, “You must teach your newborn to sleep independently in the first few months or they will have lifelong bad sleep habits.” It’s not true! It’s disheartening to hear how many parents of newborns are […]